Re: Oppose DRM ! Re: CfC: to publish Encrypted Media Extensions specification as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD)

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) <ifette@google.com>wrote:

> While I hate DRM as much as the next person, one has to ask what the
> alternatives are. It's all well and good for us to sit high on our morals
> and say "DRM bad!" but the reality is that the web is competing with other
> ecosystems (Native apps like iTunes, plugins like Silverlight and Flash)
> where DRM is available. By saying "No DRM in HTML5" it's not clear to me
> that we're not blowing off our own own hand in an effort to deal with a
> thorn in our finger. I think what this does is simply give people one more
> reason to say "The web is inadequate, we need to stick with our native apps
> or plugins".


How does the DRM in this spec avoid proprietary plugins?

-- 
Ian Hickson